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UNINA9910461761703321 |
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Chirwa Danwood M |
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Titolo |
Accountable Government in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : Perspectives from Public Law and Political Studies |
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New York, : United Nations University Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- |
Government accountability -- Africa |
Government accountability - Africa |
Government - Non-U.S |
Law, Politics & Government |
Government - Asia |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""About the Editors""; ""About the Authors""; ""Accountable government in Africa: Introduction""; ""Overview""; ""Scope and significance""; ""Defining �accountable government�""; ""The chapters in this book""; ""Post-apartheid accountability: The transformation of a political idea""; ""Introduction""; ""Accountability in the independent labour movement after 1973""; ""The emergence of the post-apartheid model of accountability""; ""Two models of accountability compared"" |
""The limits of accountability in capitalist society""""Conclusion""; ""The politics of constitutional reform in Zambia: From executive dominance to public participation?""; ""Introduction""; ""The history of constitution-making in Zambia""; ""From executive dominance to public participation?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Judicial independence and the judicialisation of electoral politics in Malawi and Uganda1""; ""Introduction""; ""Courts and elections in Malawi""; ""Courts and elections in Uganda""; ""Do strategic models explain these patterns?""; ""Multifaceted explanations needed""; ""Conclusion"" |
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""From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review: Relations between Parliament and the judiciary in Tanzania""""Introduction""; ""Parliamentary supremacy in Tanzania""; ""From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review""; ""An uneasy relationship""; ""The Mtikila case: The judiciary and Parliament collide""; ""Further clashes between Parliament and the judiciary""; ""The exercise of judicial powers by Parliament""; ""Conclusion""; ""Judicial review of parliamentary actions in South Africa: A nuanced interpretation of the separation of powers""; ""Introduction"" |
""The judicial approach to reviewing parliamentary actions""""The limits of judicial intervention""; ""Conclusion""; ""Prosecutions, politics and the law: The way things are""; ""Introduction""; ""Prosecutorial authority: �The way things are�""; ""The concept of prosecutorial independence""; ""Selected constitutional arrangements from Africa""; ""Accountability: The other side of the coin""; ""Achieving the right relationships""; ""Is there a possible �third way�?""; ""The civilianisation of prosecutorial services in Tanzania""; ""Introduction""; ""The concept of civilianisation"" |
""The legal framework for civilianisation""""The independence of the DPP and NPS""; ""The current lack of capacity and resources in the NPS""; ""Prosecutorial guidelines""; ""The accountability of the DPP and NPS""; ""The practical implications of civilianisation""; ""Conclusion""; ""Accountable governance and the role of national human rights institutions: The experience of the Malawi Human Rights Commission""; ""Introduction""; ""Brief constitutional history""; ""The role of national human rights institutions""; ""The effectiveness of NHRIs""; ""The legal framework of the MHRC"" |
""Holding the government to account: The experience of the MHRC"" |
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UNINA9910457358403321 |
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Cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific : the ASEAN regional forum / / edited by Jurgen Haacke and Noel M. Morada |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010 |
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1-135-18320-1 |
1-135-18321-X |
1-282-57610-0 |
9786612576102 |
0-203-86311-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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HaackeJurgen <1966-> |
MoradaNoel M |
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Security, International - Asia |
Security, International - Pacific Area |
National security - Asia |
National security - Pacific Area |
Electronic books. |
Asia Politics and government 21st century |
Pacific Area Politics and government 21st century |
Asia Military policy |
Pacific Area Military policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The ASEAN Regional Forum and cooperative security: Introduction; 2 The ASEAN Regional Forum: Origins and evolution; 3 The United States and the ASEAN Regional Forum: A delicate balancing act; 4 China's membership of the ARF and the emergence of an East Asian diplomatic and security culture; 5 Japan and the ASEAN Regional Forum: From enthusiasm to disappointment; 6 Australia-Japan-U.S. trilateral strategic dialogue and the ARF: Extended bilateralism or a new minilateral option? |
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7 The accidental driver: ASEAN in the ASEAN Regional Forum8 The ASEAN Regional Forum and transnational challenges: Little collective securitization, some practical cooperation; 9 The ASEAN Regional Forum and counter-terrorism; 10 Maritime security and the ARF: Why the focus on dialogue rather than action; 11 Securitisation practices in Indonesia and the Philippines and their impact on the management of security challenges in ASEAN and the ARF; 12 The ARF and cooperative security: More of the same?; Bibliography; Index |
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This book offers the most comprehensive analysis yet of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), which remains the foremost dialogue forum for the promotion of cooperative security in the Asia-Pacific. Contributors focus on the perspectives and roles of the key players in the ARF - ASEAN, the United States, China, Japan, and Australia - and discuss to what extent these participants have shaped the Forum's institutional development and affected its achievements and prospects against the backdrop of the evolving regional security architecture. They also examine in depth how participants |
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UNISA996466123703316 |
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Titolo |
Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography [[electronic resource] ] : 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, EP'98 Held Jointly with the 4th International Conference on Raster Imaging and Digital Typography, RIDT '98, St. Malo France, March 30 - April 3, 1998 / / edited by Roger Hersch, Jacques Andre, Heather Brown |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1998 |
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[1st ed. 1998.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIV, 582 p.) |
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1375 |
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Computers |
Computer communication systems |
Multimedia information systems |
Application software |
Optical data processing |
Computer graphics |
Theory of Computation |
Computer Communication Networks |
Multimedia Information Systems |
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) |
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Image Processing and Computer Vision |
Computer Graphics |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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An interface for the interactive design of artistic screens -- Image mosaics -- Font decoration by automatic mesh fitting -- A window-based method for automatic typographic parameter extraction -- Unified table approach for typographic rendering -- Producing the skeleton of a character -- Visual truetype: A graphical method for authoring font intelligence -- Feature-based design of fonts using constraints -- An object-oriented model for the hierarchical composition of letterforms in computer-aided typeface design -- The design and use of a multiple-alphabet font with ? -- Simplification of the arabic script: Three different approaches and their implementations -- The formulation of parameters for type design of Indian scripts based on calligraphic studies -- Metafont in the rockies: The Colorado typemaking project -- Designing and using scalable type for display as graphic elements on digital devices -- Mathematical tools for computer-generated ornamental patterns -- Fundamentals of 3D halftoning -- Using typography in document image analysis -- The beta-velocity model for simulating handwritten Korean scripts -- Two decades of typographic research at URW: A retrospective -- Legibility of condensed perceptually-tuned grayscale fonts -- Exploring the effect of layout on reading from screen -- Internationalized text manipulation covering perso-arabic enhanced for mongolian scripts -- Une bibliothèque informatique pour la notation musicale baroque -- Document style design by direct manipulation -- A DTD extension for document structure recognition -- Synchronization in multimedia documents -- édition et visualisation interactive de documents multimédia -- Memory scalability in constraint-based multimedia style sheet systems -- Intelligent paper -- Active alice: using real paper to interact with electronic text -- Autotag: A tool for creating structured document collections from printed materials -- Hyperbook data modeling -- A component architecture for cross-media formatters -- The effect of textual aesthetics on information retrieval -- The use of automatic alignment on structured multilingual documents -- Design and implementation of a document assembly workbench -- A virtual document interpreter for reuse of information -- Reuse of linked documents through virtual document prescriptions -- Measuring structural similarity among web documents: preliminary results -- A tool for maintaining multi-variant hypertext documents -- Projet Hypermap : Pour un environnement complet de génération automatique d'hypertexte -- Dynamic link inclusion in online PDF journals -- Adding semantics to SGML databases. |
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This book presents the refereed proceedings of the EP'98 and RIDT'98 conferences, held jointly during the Second International Week on Electronic Publishing and Typography in St. Malo, France, in March/April 1998. The 43 revised full papers presented were carefully selected for inclusion in the book. Among the topics covered are artistic imaging, tools and methods in typography, non-latin type, |
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typographic creation, imaging, character recognition, handwriting models, legibility and design issues, fonts and design, time and multimedia, electronic and paper documents, document engineering, documents and linguistics, document reuse, hypertext and the Web, and hypertext creation and management. |
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UNISA996394912203316 |
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Titolo |
Liber precum publicarum, seu ministerij ecclesiasticæ administrationis Sacramentorum, aliorumq́[ue] rituum & cæremoniarum in Ecclesia Anglicana [[electronic resource]] |
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[Excusum Londini, : Apud Reginaldum Wolfium, 1572] |
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HaddonWalter <1516-1572.> |
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A revision of the translation, by Walter Haddon, of the first prayer book of Edward VI, with the Psalter added. |
Imprint from colophon. |
Signatures: * [par.] [pointing hand] ̧[eorum]⁴ A-2I; A-T. |
Calendar printed in red and black. |
"Liber Psalmorum Dauidis, prophetæ & regis" has separate register, and title page dated 1571. |
Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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